4:50 PM ET There wasn’t much of a honeymoon period for Richard Pybus. No sooner had he been announced as West Indies’ interim head coach – even before he had been announced, really – the criticism started to flow. And if that was, in part, due to an allegation that due process had not been

9:55 PM ET Australia’s selectors have added Kurtis Patterson to the Test squad at the last possible moment, to face Sri Lanka after the New South Welshman’s twin centuries in the Hobart tour match made his case undeniable. Originally omitted from the group to play in Brisbane and Canberra, Patterson churned out unbeaten innings of

Alastair Cook’s hopes of scoring a century in his final Test remained on course as he hit an unbeaten 46 on day three at The Oval. Follow India’s 2018 tour of England right here: – https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and

Angelo Mathews struck a run-a-ball 97 to anchor his side to an imposing 299 for eight after the hosts won the toss and opted to bat. #AngeloMathews hit 11 fours and a six in his knock as Sri Lanka scored 93 off their final 10 overs to set South Africa a 300-run target. #SriLankaCricket #LionsRoar

1:23 PM ET James Anderson has “not seen anyone work as hard on their game” as Stuart Broad over the last couple of years. Anderson and Broad go into the Barbados Test with 998 Test wickets between them over the course of their careers. But while Broad, at 32, is four years younger than Anderson,

2:59 AM ET Sydney Thunder have lodged a formal protest against the “no result” handed down for their match with the Brisbane Heat at the Gabba on Thursday night after a major power outage and the lack of any backup electricity source led the umpires and the match referee to call off the fixture with

4:54 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The family of Jacob Martin, Baroda’s Ranji Trophy winning former captain, has appealed to the cricketing community to help raise funds for his treatment as he continues to remain on life support in a Vadodara hospital. Martin met with a road accident on December 28 and is reportedly on ventilator

2:30 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka seamer Nuwan Pradeep has been ruled out of the series against Australia, after scans revealed he had sustained a grade-one strain in his left hamstring. He is also doubtful for the South Africa Test series that follows close on the heels of the Australia tour. Pradeep had

Jan 18, 2019 Brisbane Heat 7 for 140 (Johnson 33, Harris 32*) beat Sydney Thunder 7 for 136 (Priest 44, Blackwell 29, Barsby 3-23) by four runs Brisbane Heat topped Sydney Thunder in a thriller to enter their first-ever WBBL finals. The match came down to the final ball and could have gone the other

11:44 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Frances Mackay returns to the New Zealand women’s T20I squad five years after she last featured in an international. The selectors have also included uncapped Caitlin Gurrey and Rosemary Mair in their 13-member squad for the three-match series against India starting February 6. Mackay and Gurrey were selected following their

11:17 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff CK Khanna, BCCI’s acting president, doesn’t want the careers of KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya to be “kept in a limbo” and has urged the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) to lift their suspension until the court issues a directive. “I suggest that pending inquiry we reinstate both the

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shares Melbourne Stars 4 for 124 (Stoinis 70*, Richardson 2-17) beat Melbourne Renegades 121 (Nabi 28, Stoinis 3-19) by six wickets A full-strength Melbourne Stars rolled Melbourne Renegades over for 121, and then relied on Marcus Stoinis to chase down the target with four balls to spare and continue their dominance of the Melbourne

8:21 AM ET Hemant Brar in Lucknow Before Saturday, Saurashtra had never won a match against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy. They had played seven, losing three and conceding the first-innings lead thrice. That record didn’t look likely to change when Saurashtra ended their first innings against the same opponents in the Ranji Trophy

1:00 PM ET Trevor Bayliss has hinted he would recommend splitting the England coaching job in the future. Bayliss’ contract as head coach expires at the end of September and he has made it clear he has no intention of seeking an extension. Instead, he is likely to pursue a future as a freelance coach

12:59 PM ET England coach Trevor Bayliss hopes the use of a specially designed Dukes ball “plays into our hands” in the Test series against West Indies. The ball, adapted to cope with abrasive Caribbean surfaces, appears to stay hard and swing for longer. England had their first look at it during the warm-up games

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Sri Lankan batsmen ended the three-day practice match in Hobart without a half-century between them in either innings, as they stumbled against the left-arm spin of Jon Holland on day three. The visitors had in fact been modest the entire day, taking only one wicket in their 32.5 overs

8:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rishabh Pant will feature in the fourth and fifth matches of India A’s one-day series against England Lions on January 29 and 31 in Thiruvananthapuram. The series will also give Ajinkya Rahane, who has been out of favour in ODIs of late, a chance to push his case for World

3:00 AM ET Toss South Africa opt to bowl v Pakistan South Africa opted to bat first after winning the toss on a wind-swept afternoon in Port Elizabeth. In the first of five ODIs against Pakistan, South Africa will look to maintain their perfect start to the tour with a number of changes to the

11:20 PM ET Australia’s ODI series defeat by India exposed another major flaw in the national team’s approach to 50-over matches since the 2015 World Cup – chiefly their reluctance to play spin meaning they have now fallen well and truly behind the leading opponents in terms of white ball tweaking options. Four years ago,

8:33 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Karnataka v Rajasthan In a tricky chase, against a bowling attack that asked plenty of questions, the class of Manish Pandey and Karun Nair pulled Karnataka through for a six-wicket win on the fourth day of their quarter-final against Rajasthan in the Ranji Trophy 2018-19. Pandey, the captain, had joined

Follow India’s 2018 tour of England right here: https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men There aren’t many players in cricket history that you would rather have walk out to the middle in the dying overs of a match. MS Dhoni delivers when it matters and he did so in emphatic style back in 2011 against England. This is the official

Jan 8, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies says it will stand by its decision to appoint Richard Pybus as interim Head Coach, in spite of objections from the Leewards Islands Cricket Board (LICB), which claims he was “handpicked” by Dave Cameron, the CWI president. Pybus will now oversee the Test squad during the forthcoming

5:49 AM ET Bangladesh are headed for New Zealand next month, but might not have the ideal preparation for the tour, according to their coach Steve Rhodes. Their top players currently engaged in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), which is being played in conditions vastly different from those they will encounter on their travels. The

6:24 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the Test series against Sri Lanka with the early stages of a stress fracture in his back. The uncapped Jhye Richardson, who impressed in the one-day series against India, has been named as his replacement. A back injury also kept Hazlewood out of